Posts Tagged ‘phobia’

Q: For as long as I can remember I have been shockingly love-shy. When I was a teenager, everyone was dating, getting girlfriends and whatnot, and I was stuck lonely. I was a little eccentric as a child, and experienced social rejection on an occasional basis. I recently took the love-shyness test, and I found [...]

Q: I’m 23 years old and have been suffering from this condition for about a year now. I cannot eat with people around on a table without feeling the urge to vomit. I’ve had similar symptoms in my earlier years but during the last several months it has become unbearable…
First it was only when new [...]

Q: I’m a 25 year old female struggling to recover from an emotionally and sometimes physically abusive childhood. I’m also battling Social Phobia / Avoidant Personality Disorder. Often, I kept my mouth shut and withdrew into myself to avoid conflicts and felt anxious when I could feel them brewing. Even now, watching others argue or [...]

Q: I am a 27 year old female with OCD. My biggest problem is fear of anything to do with death: cemeteries, funeral homes, etc. It has gotten to the point where I get stressed out leaving the house and I won’t go to people’s homes for fear of them having an urn. I moved [...]

Q: I’m a guy aged 28 yrs about to marry a girl aged 25 yrs (arranged marriage). She has completed her B.Tech recently but is looking for job now. A few days back I explained to her the relationship of husband and wife in all manners — i.e., both mental relation and the sexual relation. [...]